In my Pinterest wanderings I came across a print “Water Dreaming” by Australian Aboriginal artist, Rosie Nangala Flemming. If you click that link, you’ll understand why it spoke to me of hand stitched texture. I filed the image in my contemporary hand stitch board, adding a note “lines = stitches!” To me, lines have always meant potential for stitches or seams.

I backed some nylon organza with Misty Fuse, cut some shapes and ironed them onto fabric. The big bold stitches look easy-peasy, almost inept, even careless perhaps. But actually, it took several unpickings to figure out where my stitches should go.

That sample has suggested some other possibilities; so the next is with red leather circles + neon green stitch. The black machine stitch line outlining the 3.25″ square of foam core mount will be removed, of course, once it is in place.

Triangles, squares, ovals, weird organic shapes – there’s a lot of potential here.